Such a courageous crusade against those abominations and against the gambling dens, by Mr.Comstock--even at the risk of personal violence and in defiance of the most malignant opposition--entitles him to a place among our veritable heroes.

At a time when deeds of military prowess receive such adulation, and when the "man on horseback" outstrips the man on foot in the race for popular favor, it is well to teach our young men that he who takes up arms against the principalities and powers of darkness, and makes his own life the savior of other lives, wins a knightly crown of heavenly honor that outshines the stars, and "fadeth not away." The most unique organization that has been formed in our time for the evangelizing of the lost masses is the "Salvation Army." When I was in London, in the summer of 1885, I attended one of their monster meetings in Exeter Hall.

There was an enormous military band on the platform behind the rostrum.

Their Commander-in-Chief, General Booth, presided--a tall, thin, nervous man, who looked more like an old-fashioned Kentucky revivalist than an Englishman.

His bright-eyed and comely wife, Mrs.
Catharine Booth, was with him.